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Marvin Chochotte: slavery, revolutions, freedom, political violence against Black African descendants in the Americas, Haiti.

Saeed Hassanpour: biomedical informatics, machine learning, AI for healthcare, medical imaging, digital pathology

SouYoung Jin: video understanding, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal learning, cognitive science

Sarah Masud Preum: human-AI interaction, computational health, data science, natural language processing, conversational assistants, deep learning

Dan Rockmore: complex systems, machine learning, networks, computational harmonic analysis

Soroush Vosoughi: social media analytics, machine learning, social cybersecurity, artificial intelligence

Yujun Yan: machine learning, graph/data mining, graph neural networks, interpretable machine learning, program understanding and synthesis

Yaoqing Yang: machine learning, 3D point clouds, statistical physics, loss landscape, neural-network weight analysis, information theory, coded computing

 

Sunmin Kim: race, immigration, minority politics, public opinion, policy preferences of Asian Americans, historical sociology

Eng-Beng Lim: Asian American studies; postcolonial/diaspora studies; ethnic studies; activism; diversity, equity, and inclusion

Emily Walton: race and place; residential experiences and health among multiple racial and ethnic groups, segregation, ethnic neighborhoods

Caroline Robertson: sensory perception and cognition in autism, Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative, early detection of autism

Tillman Gerngross: protein engineering; metabolic engineering; protein expression

Matthew F. Delmont: African-American history, U.S. history, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, school desegregation, television, popular culture, media

Robert Hawley: Antarctica, Greenland, ice sheets, glaciers, snow, geophysics

Caitlin Hicks Pries: ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil ecology, and climate change

Meredith Kelley: climate change, glacial geologic studies, geomorphology

Justin S. Mankin: climate impacts on people and ecosystems, extreme weather and climate, climate modeling, drought and ecohydrology

Erich Osterberg: paleoclimatology, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, snow and ice chemistry

Donald Perovich: sea ice geophysics; the interaction of sunlight with ice and snow; the Arctic system and climate change

Ross Virginia: Polar policy and environmental issues, ecosystem ecology, soil biogeochemical cycling, climate change in polar systems

Jonathan Winter: climate variability and change, climate impacts on water resources and agriculture, global climate model projections, hydroclimate

Lisa V. Adams: healthcare and COVID-19

Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song: health equity in rural health New England

Elliott Fisher: geography/U.S. mapping of the COVID-19 pandemic

Herschel Nachlis: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), vaccine regulation, public policy, health policy and politics

Christopher Snyder: economics of developing vaccines

Anne N. Sosin: health equity in rural health New England

Elizabeth A. Talbot: infectious disease, travel medicine, international health

Devin Singh: religion and the history of money, the digitization of cash, cryptocurrency, religion and economics, sociology of markets and money, credit and debit in the West

David F. Kotz: mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology, security and privacy, wireless networks

Alexis Abramson: building energy efficiency; sustainable energy technology; data analytics applied to energy applications

Elizabeth J. Wilson: energy and environmental policy, climate change, public perception of emerging technologies, regulatory and legal analysis of emerging technologies

Brendan Nyhan: misperceptions and conspiracy theories, the science of fake news, political communication and the media, political scandal and corruption

Celia Chen: ecology and evolutionary biology, especially mercury and other metal contaminants in aquatic food webs

Kathryn L. Cottingham: ecology, and public and environmental health, such as the dynamics of lake plankton and arsenic

Andrew Levin: The Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, monetary policy

Lisa V. Adams: healthcare and COVID-19

Elliott Fisher: geography/U.S. mapping of the COVID-19 pandemic

Feng Fu: mathematical biology, applied math, infectious diseases, cancer, evolutionary theory

Elizabeth A. Talbot: infectious disease, travel medicine, international health

 

Jorge Cuéllar: Central American politics, race, culture, migration, social movements, U.S. and Central America

Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality

Ethan Lewis: immigration, how immigration benefits U.S.-born workers, technological change, U.S. public education

Emily Walton: race and place, residential experiences and health among multiple racial and ethnic groups, segregation, ethnic neighborhoods

Richard A. Wright: U.S. immigration, migration, race and racism in labor and housing markets

Andrew Levin: Inflation, macroeconomics, monetary policy, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund

Matthew Ayres: population insect ecology, especially mountain pine beetles

Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality

Kristin E. Smith: gender inequality, employment and earnings, and work and family policy

Eng-Beng Lim: queer/transnational studies; queer pop culture; LGBTQIA issues; Asian American studies; ethnic studies; activism; diversity, equity, and inclusion

John (“Jack”) H. Turco: endocrinology, transgender care, sports medicine

David Kotz: mobile healthcare technology, security and privacy, wireless networks, smart home technology

Temiloluwa Prioleau: data science for health, mobile/wearable technology for healthcare

Nicholas Miller: U.S. relations with North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and their nuclear capabilities; nuclear proliferation; international security; U.S. foreign policy

Udi Greenberg: European responses to the Russia – Ukraine conflict, the history of this conflict, Russian/Soviet imperialism, European-Russian relations

Brooke Harrington: economic sanctions and the Russian financial system, Russian oligarchs, financial markets and offshore banking, wealth and taxation, professional misconduct, social movements

Susannah Heschel: antisemitism, Judaism, Nazi Germany

Victoria K. Holt: public policy, diplomacy, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, counter-terrorism, international security

Jason Lyall: soldiers’ morale, military effectiveness, Russia, Afghanistan, international security, political violence, humanitarian assistance, research methods and ethics for conflict settings

Lynn Ellen Patyk: information warfare, terrorism and provocation, the Russian independent media 

William C. Wohlforth: Russian foreign policy, U.S. – Russia relations, Cold War, international security, international relations, leadership, and grand strategy

Eng-Beng Lim: queer/transnational studies; queer pop culture; LGBTQIA issues; Asian American studies; ethnic studies; activism; diversity, equity, and inclusion

Melody Brown Burkins: Arctic science policy and diplomacy; global science and diplomacy, including sustainability, inclusion and gender equality initiatives

Luis F. Alvarez León: self-driving cars and geospatial data, economic geography, geographic information, geospatial technologies, critical GIS, information policy, digital economy

Soroush Vosoughi: social media analytics, machine learning, social cybersecurity, artificial intelligence

Jason Houle: student loan debt, household debt, foreclosure crisis, sociology of mental health

David G. Blanchflower: Brexit, economics of the U.K., statistics, labor economics, microeconomics and econometrics

Douglas Irwin: U.S. trade policy, globalization, U.S. trade with China, WTO
 

Joseph Bafumi: polling numbers, public opinion, America’s polarization

Randall Balmer: American religious history, faith in the presidency

Deborah Jordan Brooks: public opinion regarding female candidates, media and advertising in American politics

Linda L. Fowler: presidential primaries (especially N.H.), interest groups, campaign ethics

Michael C. Herron: election administration, ballot abnormalities and residual votes, government redistribution

Dean Lacy: elections, public opinion, political parties and interest groups

Russell Muirhead: political parties and ideology, democracy and politics

Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality

Charles Wheelan: public policy, accessible economics, accessible statistics, U.S. protectionism

Francis Magilligan: global water resources, human impacts on watersheds, flood hydrology

Andrew Campbell: ubiquitous computing, wireless networks, mobile computing

David F. Kotz: mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology, security and privacy, wireless networks